List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Charlotte Cornwell
Charlotte Cornwell was an English actress.
Eileen O'Shaughnessy
Eileen Maud Blair was the first wife of George Orwell.
Lindsay Owen-Jones
Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, KBE,, born in Wallasey, Cheshire to a Welsh family, was the Chairman and CEO of the cosmetics and beauty company L'Oréal from 1988 to 2011.
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing CBE, RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square.
Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's
Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Lady Bannside, is a Northern Irish Unionist politician, a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, and the widow of Ian Paisley, Lord Bannside, former leader of the DUP. She became a life peer in 2006. She retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017.
Simon J. Smith
Simon James Smith is a Welsh-English animator, director, visual effects artist and occasional voice actor best known for his work at DreamWorks Animation. Smith came to PDI/DreamWorks in 1997 as head of layout for the company's feature film division. A CG animation veteran with nearly 25 years of experience, Smith supervised the layout department on PDI/DreamWorks' first animated feature Antz, serving as the head of layout in Shrek. He then directed the Universal Studios Theatre experience Shrek 4-D, followed by the short Far Far Away Idol. His first feature film as a director was in 2007, with Bee Movie. He then directed another DVD short, Megamind: The Button of Doom, before co-helming, with Eric Darnell, the comedy/spy action spin-off from the Madagascar series, Penguins of Madagascar.
Simon Donald
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds and Donaldson–Thomas theory. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.
David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He is currently a University Professor Emeritus in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
Simon Dennis
Simon John Dennis MBE is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
Peter M. Neumann
Peter Michael Neumann OBE was a British mathematician. He was a son of the German-born mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann and, after gaining a BA degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1963, obtained his DPhil degree from Oxford University in 1966.